Singapore Tourism Board will allow international travelers from countries in the Vaccinated Travel Lane to board cruise ships currently homeported in Singapore, reports Singapore Cruise Society. This announcement refers to 21 countries that the Singapore government established the Vaccinated Travel Lanes with.
MSC Cruises announced the company will accept only fully vaccinated guests for the winter sailings across the entire fleet, with obligation of an additional COVID-19 test before the embarkation date. These measures were in use for all of the line’s winter voyages in other regions, just the Mediterranean sailings have been added to the list with the new requirements, and from that moment on, all the guests booked on both MSC Grandiosa and MSC Fantasia.
The Cayman Islands Department of Tourism and Transport announced on Wednesday the long-awaited arrival of the first cruise ship to George Town, signaling the return of cruise ships to the Grand Cayman. Holland America Lines’ ms Nieuw Statendam will arrive on 28 December, making it the first cruise ship to visit the Cayman Islands in almost 20 months.
Barcelona City Council and Costa Cruises have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that promotes a sustainable economy of the city and puts key values such as sustainability and inclusive tourism at the forefront. Costa has made the first steps, acting immediately by establishing a new multilingual center -the Costa Customer Hub-placed in the symbolic Torre Mapfre, planning to improve the customer services, while it contributes to the local community with new employments and trainings.
In order to boost domestic tourism in Australia, Carnival Cruise Line has revealed new itineraries for 2023-24. This new moment is well brought after Carnival’s pause in the country to at least March 2022. The company released 115 voyages for two vessels Carnival Splendor and Carnival Spirit scheduled to depart from Sydney and Brisbane in 2023-24, a strategic way to boost the domestic tourism market that lost over $300 million so far.
Princess Cruises has announced cancellations of 19 voyages scheduled for Crown Princess and Island Princess. Guests who have booked these cruises and travel agents are informed about the latest changes.
St. Maarten will see increased cruise traffic today as the port marks the first six-ship day of the cruise season. This is an important milestone for one of the most popular cruise destinations in the Caribbean, welcoming for the first time in more than 20-months six cruise liners in one day.
The Greek cruise operator Celestyal Cruises will allow fully vaccinated guests with Sputnik V COVID vaccine to board the ships, reports Tornosnews.
This past weekend, Norwegian Joy, the Norwegian Cruise Line’s ninth ship to resume cruise operations, started sailing from Miami to the Caribbean.
After a long pause Holland America Line's Niew Statendam departed on its first cruise from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ship, built in Italy in 2018 joined the other four ships in the fleet already in service: Rotterdam, Koningsdam, Eurodam and Nieuw Amsterdam.
